Transitions, Urbanism, and Collapse in the Bronze Age

Jesse C. Long, Jr., is Professor of Old Testament at Lubbock Christian University. William G. Dever is Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Arizona.

• Introduction Suzanne Richard: An AppreciationJesse C. Long, Jr. and William G. Dever Suzanne Richard PublicationsTransitions1. Diet, Drink, and Death: The Transition from the Intermediate Bronze Age to the Middle Bronze Age in the Southern LevantSusan Cohen (Montana State University) 2. Urbanism, Collapse, and Transitions: Considerations on the EB III/IV and the EB IV/MB I Nexuses in the Southern LevantMarta D’Andrea (Sapienza University of Rome) 3. MB II-LB I Transition in North Inner Syria: A Difficult HorizonFrances Pinnock (Sapienza University of Rome)4. Changes in the Architectural Fabric of Hazor’s Lower City from the Middle Bronze to the Late BronzeShlomit Bechar (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Institute of Archaeology)5. A Royal Palace in Transition: The Functions of the Archaic Palace of Ebla in Its Historical ContextPaolo Matthiae (Sapienza University of Rome) EB and Urbanism6. EBI and Early Urbanism in Jordan: New Lights on a Formative Period through the Jebel al Mutawwaq ExcavationsAndrea Polcaro (Perugia University) 7. The Lower Jordan Valley and the Ghôr: A Case for Urban Life in Jordan in the 3rd Millennium BCEZeidan Kafafi (Yarmuk University, Irbid,Jordan)8. “Show me how you bury your people”: Dolmens, Burials, and Social Development in the Early Bronze AgeSusanne Kerner (University of Copenhagen)9. The Political Economy of Early Bronze Age Copper Production at Khirbat Hamra Ifdan (Jordan): Implications for Southern Levantine UrbanismAaron Gidding (University of California, Santa Barbara) and Thomas E. Levy (University of California, San Diego)10. The Early Bronze Age in the Southern Levant: A View from Tell HalifJoe D. Seger (Professor Emeritus, Mississippi State University)Early Bronze IV11. Early Bronze Age IV Community in the Upper Wadi Zarqa, North Central Jordan: Ethnoarchaeological PerspectivesKhalid Douglas (Sultan Qaboos University, Oman; The Hashemite University, Jordan)12. Early Bronze IV Settlement, Chronology, and Society along the Jordan RiftSteven E. Falconer and Patricia L. Fall (University of North Carolina, Charlotte) 13. On the Edge of the Valley: The Wadi Hammeh and the Hinterland of Pella in the EB IV PeriodMelissa A. Kennedy (University of Western Australia, Perth) and Stephen J. Bourke (University of Sidney)14. Testing the Statistical EB IV Ceramic Study: New Excavations in Area C at Khirbat IskandarPaul Stanley Holdorf (Khirbat Iskandar Expedition)15. Khirbat Iskandar EB IV: The Household Architecture of Phase A in Area BShelby D. Green (Abilene Christian University) and Jesse C. Long, Jr. 16. Early Bronze IV Presence in Jordan: A SurveyBurton MacDonald (St. Francis Xavier University)17. Storagejars and Storerooms in Palace G at Ebla (EBIV A): The Foodstuffs of the Last Days of Life in an Early Syrian CapitalStefania Mazzoni (University of Florence)18. The Early Bronze Age IV/Intermediate Bronze Age at Batrawy and Jericho: Post-urban vs. Proto-urbanLorenzo Nigro (Sapienza University of Rome)Ceramics19. The Madaba Settlement Cluster and the Nature of Early Bronze Age Urbanism in the Central Highlands of JordanStanley Klassen and Timothy P. Harrison (University of Toronto)20. A View from the North: Black Wheelmade Ware in LebanonHermann Genz (American University of Beirut), Kamal Badreshany (University of Durham), and Mathilde Jean (University of Paris)21. One Potter: Multiple Clay Body TypesGloria London (Seattle Museum)